NASA running out of plutonium for future space missions

Last month, NASA unveiled an ambitious plan to send a nuclear-powered robotic submarine to explore the hydrocarbon seas of Saturn’s moon, Titan. However, it has now emerged that the space agency is running out of nuclear fuel to power such missions. Plutonium-238, an isotope of the radioactive material used by NASA for its deep-space missions such…

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